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A return to caning

by Roger Sinasohn, Posted Oct 4th 2008 5:00PM

According to the Times, one in five teachers in the UK would like to be able to use corporal punishment in the classroom. Children's behaviour, they say, has deteriorated so much that they feel the need to hit the children. "There is justification ...
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Kiwis need a good spanking

by Roger Sinasohn, Posted Feb 23rd 2008 5:04PM

Last year, New Zealand passed a law eliminating "reasonable parental correction" -- spanking -- as a defense in assault cases. One politician, however, thinks that a good smacking is okay -- and claims nearly three quarters of the population agrees ...
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Witnessing abuse

by Roger Sinasohn, Posted Aug 20th 2007 12:03PM

One of our readers wrote in recently to ask what others would have done in a situation in which she found herself. She was at a restaurant and had to visit the ladies room. She describes what happened next: "On the way I passed a table where a child ...
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Do parents have a right to smack their kids?

by Jonathon Morgan, Posted Nov 21st 2006 3:24PM

I'm just barely on this side of adulthood, but when I was a child, it was still common practice for even the most docile of parents to spank or smack their kids when the munchkins got particularly out of line. I remember getting swatted on the butt a ...
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